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SOLPUGID.E. 



A. 



Genus GLUVIOPSIS, Kraepelin. 

 Gluviopsis, Kraepelin, Jb. Hamb. iciss. Anst. xvi, p. 235, 1899. 



j> . Anterior border of head lightly convex. Ocular tubercle fur- 

 nished with numerous short stout 

 bristles ; similar bristles scattered 

 over the head, being longest near 

 the margins, and also on the 

 thoracic and at least on the 

 anterior abdominal terga. Upper 

 jaw of mandible with 1st, 2nd, 

 and 4th teeth large, 3rd small ; 

 lower jaw with 1 minor tooth. 

 Patella and tibia of palpus armed 

 below with two rows of spines 

 and studded with short, erect, 

 cylindrical bristles above and 

 below ; only a few tactile hairs 

 on the palpus. Legs with tarsi 

 one-jointed, tarsus of the 4th about 

 five times as long as high ; femur 

 of 4th about five times as long 

 as high ; tibia of 2nd and 3rd with 

 5 posterior and dorsal spines. 



c?. With dorsal surface of 

 head, thorax, and abdomen much 

 more strongly spined than in 

 female ; upper jaw weakly 

 toothed ; flagellum membranous, 

 fusiform, rounded in front and 

 pointed behind when lying at 

 rest, its upper edge folded over, 



its anterior extremity not projecting so far as the 1st mandibular 



tooth, hinged to the jaw by a swivel joint, which is visible as a 



rounded chitinous button. 



Type, G. rufescens, Pocock ; N. Africa and Arabia. 

 Distribution. Countries south and east of the Mediterranean 



(Algiers, Asia Minor), Arabia, Somaliland, Socotra, and Western 



India. 



Fig. 50. Gluviopsis atratus. A. 

 Jaws of $. B. Jaws of tf . 



C. Upper jaw of c? from inner 

 side, showing flagellum (a) and 

 some of the stridulating-ridges (6). 



D. Tarsus of 4th leg. 



120. Gluviopsis atratus, Pocock, A. M. N. H. (7) v, p. 303, 1900. 



$ . Colour blackish, body covered with yellowish bristles and 

 spines ; 1st and 2nd legs mostly pale, base of palp and base 

 and apex of 3rd and 4th legs pale. Width of head about equal to 

 length of patella or to tibia and tarsus of palp, shorter than 

 patella and longer than tibia of 4th leg. Palpus about three times 

 as long as width of head. 



<3 . Much more coarsely and closely spined than female ; terminal 

 fangs of mandible long and slender, the upper nearly straight, 



